News for 12 January 2007
Politics
12 January 2007 [15:49]
Azerbaijan's European Union (EU) membership problem is not discussed yet.
12 January 2007 [15:41]
Head of the OSCE Office in Baku takes up his position on 1 February.
12 January 2007 [15:39]
The EU European Commission's special envoy to Azerbaijan will stop its activity after the EU Office is opened, said Alan Vaddams.
12 January 2007 [14:32]
"The cooperation of Azerbaijan and Iran on economical sphere develops. At present, some projects concerning the development of border regions is developing," Iranian Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Azerbaijan Abbaseli Hasanov told.
12 January 2007 [01:11]
Iran announced Thursday that it has arrested a senior official for allegedly spying on the country's nuclear program.
12 January 2007 [00:49]
Simplified visa regime for Nakhchivan-Iran will soon be applied.
12 January 2007 [00:04]
Business
12 January 2007 [15:42]
An Iranian delegation will soon get to Baku to negotiate on the start of gas exports to Azerbaijan for 2007 amid Azerbaijan's having refused to buy Russia gas in a price row.
12 January 2007 [15:40]
The Confederation of the Azerbaijan Labor Unions has sent its proposals to the Government on compensating people for the price hike in the utilities and fuel.
12 January 2007 [13:50]
This year Azerbaijan is going to restructure and renovate a number of plants such as Aviaagregat, Radiozavod, Ulduz and Azon for defense purposes and put into operation.
12 January 2007 [11:31]
Quotas on Caspian Sea caviar exports are ineffective and will not help restore dwindling sturgeon stocks, according to analysts and ecologists in Kazakhstan, one of the countries bordering the landlocked sea.
12 January 2007 [11:09]
Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Iran Abbasali Hassanov emphasizing that Baku CeBit Exhibition is a threshold for entry of Iranians to Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and EU markets.
12 January 2007 [01:15]
Kazakhstan refined 11.664 million tonnes of crude oil in 2006, up 4.5% year-on-year.
12 January 2007 [00:59]
A road bridge in the 20 Yanvar circle and a tunnel in Shamakhinka will be opened in mid March.
12 January 2007 [00:58]
World Bank mission for water supply and drainage project has come to Azerbaijan.
12 January 2007 [00:47]
AzerTurkBank plans to open branches in Zagatala, Ganja and Nakhchivan.
12 January 2007 [00:44]
Grain Terminal, being built by Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, will become operational in May, 2007.
12 January 2007 [00:42]
The 2007 energy balance of Azerbaijan will be introduced to the Cabinet in late January.
12 January 2007 [00:41]
National Bank of Azerbaijan has bought currency shred device and granulator from the Kusters Engineering to destroy the old banknotes.
12 January 2007 [00:40]
The proposal to limit excessive home telephone use in Baku will be submitted to the Tariff Council.
12 January 2007 [00:26]
12 January 2007 [00:25]
Georgian businessmen Badri Patarkashvili has sold the Kulevi oil terminal on the Black Sea to the Azerbaijan State Oil Company (SOCAR).
12 January 2007 [00:24]
84 tankers carrying 60.3m barrels of oil have to date sailed from the Ceyhan Port to the world market. Turkey gained USD 33m as transit tax and loading service tariffs.
12 January 2007 [00:20]
The Management Board of the Baku Electricity Network Company has approved of the Baku Energy System Development Program.
12 January 2007 [00:19]
The authorized fund of the AIG Caspian International Company Ltd. has risen to AZN 3.5m.
12 January 2007 [00:18]
The grape production is expected to grow by five times in Azerbaijan during the next decade.
12 January 2007 [00:15]
In December, 2006 according to the calculations by the Analytical Department of the BSE, in the government securities market (excluding repo operations market) International Transaction Systems headed ranking of brokers with brokerage services in the total amount of AZN 48 238 695.82 provided to a client.
12 January 2007 [00:10]
Supported by the World Bank, the School of International Economics started in Georgia last year.
Society
12 January 2007 [17:10]
Today, at 14.00 fire occurred in 24 apartment, 87 Neftchiler Avenue.
12 January 2007 [15:48]
Interior Ministry Riot Police and Baku Main Police Board Police Garrison will be on alert on the day of 17th anniversary of 20 January tragedy.
12 January 2007 [15:47]
A resident of Lenkaran, Samir Bagirov Ikhtiyar, 21, was killed in Tumen, Russia.
12 January 2007 [15:46]
Lifer Anar Ismayilov who was accused of killing Nadir Hasanguliyev, parliamentarian Gudret Hasanguliyev's brother, has not been interrogated yet.
12 January 2007 [15:37]
"Reduction of the stuff is expected for optimizing the Academy's activity. We consider that the number of the organizations should be optimum; the institutions, the activities of which are close to each other should be united. All this will make the academy's work more effective," said the President of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, academician Mahmud Kerimov.
12 January 2007 [13:46]
Over 500 appeals received by headquarters set up to help Russian Azerbaijanis in connection with the application of law on Migration in Russia on January 15, Shakir Selimov, chief of the department of State Committee for Azerbaijanis living abroad told.
12 January 2007 [01:01]
The process delays because of technical reasons. Biometric visas will be given from March.
12 January 2007 [01:00]
Skinheads send threatening SMS to Azerbaijanis in Nijegorodsk province of Russia, Nijegorodsk Province Muslims Office said.
12 January 2007 [00:56]
Khankendi Election Constituencies # 122 will begin to specify voters' lists from January 15.
12 January 2007 [00:52]
Committee for Defense of Rights of World Azerbaijanis appealed to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, demanding to release from custody Abbas Lisan, one of the leaders of the movement for Azerbaijanis rights, arrested by Iranian law-enforcement agencies 2 months ago.
12 January 2007 [00:45]
Livestock in Tekle village, the region of Masalli died of jaundice.
12 January 2007 [00:37]
Councellor on legal issues of the U.S Embassy Devis Louis was attacked by unknown armed people.
12 January 2007 [00:11]
The broadcasting of adio Liberty and VOA stations restored on 101.7 FM.
12 January 2007 [00:06]
The subsistence wages and pension benefits may increase earlier than planned - in March, in connection with the increase of energy supply prices, said Milli Majlis social policy commission chief Hadi Radjabli.
12 January 2007 [00:04]
